The Methodology of the jounal review (part 2)

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Today I would like to continue the journal review, the title is The Use of Songs in Teaching Students’ Listening Ability. In this part, I would like to review about the methodology that use to solve the problem of student’s listening ability.

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Before I tell you the methods that used by the researcher, I will tell you the problems. The researcher found that in listening comprehension, students face difficulties in communication. The problem is not because of the ability of the students but also from the teachers. So, to overcome the problem, developing such as an interactive way to teach listening is recommended. Murphy (1990) suggests that many English teachers have long recognized that song and music work well in language classes. The statements show that the teachers can use songs as a media to overcome the students difficulties in listening and improve their listening ability.

The methodology. The researcher used a sample from 60 students of second grade in Junior High School in Sumedang. Two classes were chosen for this research by applying purposive sampling. Each class consist of thirty students. Both classes were tested by pre-test and post-test.

Instrumentation

The researcher used two instruments in this journal :

1.     TOEFL based listening test : this test was used to evaluate the students’ mastery in listening comprehension. It comprised 50 questions item which given to the students as a pilot test.

2.    A researcher made a questionnaire to seek the difficulties faced by the students in listening comprehension using songs as the media. It included 8 questions concerning on the students’ difficulties in the teaching and learning process using songs.

Design and Procedure

This research was conducted based on quantitative method. The research used quasi experimental design. The sample is divided into two classes; experimental class and control class. Both classes were tested by pre-test and post-test. Songs were given to the experimental classes as a treatment before giving a post test. Besides, the control class was taught by conventional methods. Afterwards, the data of the two classes were compared and analyzed to find out its significance. Using the t test formula to determine the means score of two classes so the effectiveness of the use of songs could be sought.

Data analysis

The data were analyzed based on the following analysis :

The validity and reliability of the instrument was firstly drawn. Based on the calculation, the instrument is valid with r = 0.790. Furthermore the reliability of the instruments was also analyzed, from the calculation, it is shown that the reliability value r11 is 0.304. From the calculation, it can be concluded that the instrument is reliable since the minimum value of the reliability of the instrument is 0.257  After knowing the validity and reliability of the instrument, then paired sample t-test formula was conducted to know the effect of the use of songs. Before doing so, it is necessary to compute the pre-test score of each group which consisted of normality distribution test, variance homogeneity test and t-test computation.

To be continued guys ~

See you next week on the next review, thank you 😆